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Category: Education

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- Shipwrecked in the Arctic: a 16th-century survival story

Mon, 01 Mar 2021
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- The Roman emperors: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 28 Feb 2021
964
- Adventure and archaeology in the golden age of Egyptology

Sat, 27 Feb 2021
963
- Crafting historical weapons for Wolf Hall and The Witcher

Fri, 26 Feb 2021
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- Nefertiti: wife, mother, pharaoh

Thu, 25 Feb 2021
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- The women who fought back against Hollywood

Wed, 24 Feb 2021
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- Rivalries and romances: couples that shook up history

Tue, 23 Feb 2021
959
- The Vikings’ global connections

Mon, 22 Feb 2021
958
- The space race: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 21 Feb 2021
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- Sathnam Sanghera on how modern Britain is shaped by empire

Sat, 20 Feb 2021
956
- The big questions of LGBTQ history

Fri, 19 Feb 2021
955
- Chaos & communism: China’s 1949 revolution

Thu, 18 Feb 2021
954
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: poet, activist, trailblazer, runaway

Wed, 17 Feb 2021
953
- Is “Blitz Spirit” a myth?

Tue, 16 Feb 2021
952
- Fatal accidents and violent injuries in the Middle Ages

Mon, 15 Feb 2021
951
- The Dissolution: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 14 Feb 2021
950
- The forgotten mothers of civil rights leaders

Sat, 13 Feb 2021
949
- Sex, romance and rights: women's lives since 1950

Fri, 12 Feb 2021
948
- Victorian pet cemeteries: animals in the afterlife

Thu, 11 Feb 2021
947
- How slavery fuelled the British empire

Wed, 10 Feb 2021
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- 17th-century London: a city shaped by catastrophe

Tue, 09 Feb 2021
945
- Medieval forgeries

Mon, 08 Feb 2021
944
- Daily life in ancient Egypt: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 07 Feb 2021
943
- Novelist Kate Mosse on The City of Tears

Sat, 06 Feb 2021
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- The Dark Ages: a ‘black hole’ in Britain’s history

Fri, 05 Feb 2021
941
- 1962: London’s big freeze

Thu, 04 Feb 2021
940
- Edward I’s letters

Wed, 03 Feb 2021
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- Cary Grant: from humble beginnings to Hollywood icon

Tue, 02 Feb 2021
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- Blitz spirit or broken morale?

Mon, 01 Feb 2021
937
- The Black Death: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 31 Jan 2021
936
- Why do we fight wars?

Sat, 30 Jan 2021
935
- A guide to the Norse gods

Fri, 29 Jan 2021
934
- The hunt for Caesar’s killers

Thu, 28 Jan 2021
933
- Werewolves of the ancient world

Wed, 27 Jan 2021
932
- Rich vs poor in Regency Britain

Tue, 26 Jan 2021
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- Spectacular discoveries at Sutton Hoo

Mon, 25 Jan 2021
930
- The Persian empire: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 24 Jan 2021
929
- The shipwreck that sunk a royal dynasty

Sat, 23 Jan 2021
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- The NHS: a brief history

Fri, 22 Jan 2021
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- Rebuilding Europe after WW2

Thu, 21 Jan 2021
926
- How oceans shaped human civilisation

Wed, 20 Jan 2021
925
- Searching for freedom after the Holocaust

Tue, 19 Jan 2021
924
- The race for vaccines: lessons from history

Mon, 18 Jan 2021
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- Britain’s Swinging Sixties: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 17 Jan 2021
922
- MI9’s secret escape missions

Sat, 16 Jan 2021
921
- Hitler and Stalin: tyrants at war

Fri, 15 Jan 2021
920
- How historians helped build the British empire

Thu, 14 Jan 2021
919
- When British pop invaded America

Wed, 13 Jan 2021
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- The collapse of the Third Reich

Tue, 12 Jan 2021
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- Domesday Book: medieval big data

Mon, 11 Jan 2021

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